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Volume 29 Number 2
  • ISSN 0155-0640
  • E-ISSN: 1833-7139

Abstract

This article focuses on a detailed description of patterns of address in Dili Tetum today. It outlines the complexities of the address system and points to considerable variation in its evolving presentday use. We find, amongst other things, that a speaker may use a range of address strategies even to the same addressee, and that the use of polite pronouns and appears to be spreading as the language extends into new domains not previously available to it.

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